buisson

French buisson

buisson (plural buissons)

1. A fruit tree trained on a low stem, the branches closely pruned.

From Middle French, from Old French buison, boissun (“stand of wild shrubs”), diminutive of Old French bois, bosc (“area planted with trees”), from Frankish *bosk, *busk (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Cognate with Old Norse buskr (“bush”), Middle High German busch, bosch (“bush”), Middle English busshe. More at bush; bois +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /bɥi.sɔ̃/

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buisson m (plural buissons)

1. (botany) bush

• “buisson” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

buisson m (oblique plural buissons, nominative singular buissons, nominative plural buisson)

1. Alternative form of buison